🎉DeepSeek V4 guides, benchmarks, and official Coding Plans

into the unknown

Follow DeepSeek V4 news, compare it with GPT 5.5, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, and jump to in-stock official Coding Plans when you need direct API access.

API Keys & Benchmarks

Model Benchmarks

Compare DeepSeek V4 side-by-side with GPT 5.5, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. See which models lead on OpenClaw PinchBench for coding, tool use, and agent workflows.

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Claude Desktop Model Mapping

New

Claude Code Desktop 1.6259.1 tightened Gateway model-ID checks. Learn the safer new mapping route: keep Claude-style aliases in Desktop, map them to DeepSeek V4 Pro or Flash, and verify that Pro plus 1M context actually routes correctly.

Open Mapping Guide

DeepSeek Vision Model

New

DeepSeek's official gray rollout for vision is now visible to selected users. Read the technical news brief on Thinking with Visual Primitives, the paper behind its point-and-box reasoning approach.

Read Vision Brief

Local Flash Deployment

Hot

DeepSeek V4 Flash running locally on Mac is a major deployment milestone. Open the detailed tutorial for GGUF selection, llama.cpp builds, launch commands, smoke tests, troubleshooting, and API fallback strategy.

Open Local Tutorial

DeepSeek TUI

New

Install the open-source terminal coding agent built around DeepSeek V4, compare Plan/Agent/YOLO modes, and understand how Pro orchestration with Flash workers affects cost.

Open TUI Guide

DeepSeek V4 Guides

Hands-on Python, Node.js, Claude Code/Desktop integration guides, plus head-to-head comparisons of DeepSeek V4 with GPT 5.5, Claude, and Grok.

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DeepSeek V4

$0.90
  • Official DeepSeek V4 API
  • Direct connect — no proxy, no relay
  • One-off Coding Plan price from $0.90
  • Official Pro API promo: $0.435 input / $0.87 output per 1M
  • Flash: 1M context at $0.14 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens
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Benchmark Snapshot + Price

Homepage benchmark view aligned to the latest comparison chart, with a separate price panel for easier cost reading.

DeepSeek V4
Claude 4.7
GPT 5.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Knowledge & Reasoning
Agentic Capabilities

Price Snapshot

Current price comparison shown separately so benchmark categories stay easy to read.

DeepSeek V4 Coding Plans start at $0.90 on this site. Official API token pricing should be read separately: V4 Pro cache-hit input is $0.003625 / 1M tokens on the English table (RMB 0.025 / 1M on the Chinese table).

Core benchmark values are aligned to the homepage reference comparison chart. Grok 4.2, Qwen 3.5, GLM 5, and MiniMax M2.7 use proportionally scaled fallback estimates where direct values were unavailable.

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